sycostang67
Seaman Apprentice
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- Jun 9, 2018
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We took our boat out for the first time the other day and for the most part it worked great. The only issue we had was it stalled 2 of the 3 times we were trying to get underway. It was fine when we launched, I let it idle for 2-3 minutes before taking off. When we went to leave our dock later on, I again let it warm up for 2-3 minutes and when I put it in reverse it died. It took 2-3 tries to fire it up again but then it went into gear just fine. We cruised for about 20 minutes then went to load up on the trailer. I shut it down, went and got the trailer and started it back up, put it in reverse and it died again. It took another couple tries for it to fire and then I loaded it up. The only constant was it usually seems to happen when going to reverse. I was wondering if bumping the idle up just a tad would help. It seems awfully quiet at idle that I'm afraid it's going to stall because I can't hear it running. As I'm typing this out I realized I don't really recall what speed it was idling at. I can put the muff on it and fire it up though, what speed should it be idling at?